It's just to long of a run. The technical maximum is 100m, but I think the actual maximum maybe as low as 140 feet. I have never run one longer than around 120 feet.

You either need to get a...

I think you need to understand what the question was and how NAT and statefull firewalls work. ICMP traffic generated externally will not enter a typical statefull firewall. But he was generating the...

No one is saying it won't work. An OEM key with an OEM cd will work. It's just illegal.

Must have had some problems.

Depends on how you quantify expensive. The hardware is rock solid and their support and documentation is second to none. If we went with some cheap home routers for our production network we would...

That key is for that machine only. It would work with an OEM install of Windows on another machine. But legally it is tied to the machine it came with.

You should check them out. VMWare Player and VMWare Server are free, as well as VMWare Fusion for the Mac (only while it's in beta though).

VMWare Workstation gives you some more options, and...

nolanjb is trying to ping a remote mailserver. The dns entries should be the same. The dns service on his network will hold static and dynamic entries for computers on the lan, and cache entries for...

Thats cool, but Microsoft releases those same images (prebuilt servers for 2003, SQL 2005 and so on) for VMWare to since it is the more popular platform. I don't remember Virtual PC having better...

I would recommend a Cisco ASA 5505. It's not as plug and play as some traditional home offerings, but Cisco's documentation is very good. It is a firewall appliance that has a built in 8 port switch...

As someone that has used both Virtual PC and VMWare products I can say that VMWare far outperforms Virtual PC, even when installing Microsoft's own operating systems. I think you are on the right...

It all depends on the hardware that you are running on. You will need some ram for your host operating system, about 512MB for the virtualized server 2003 and about 256MB for the virtualized XP...

We are in a situation where I work where our base infrastructure is specified by our parent company. We have to run a Windows 2003 Active directory domain, Exchange servers, and Windows XP...

What you want to do is use nslookup on the Exchange server. At a command prompt type nslookup then enter.

At the >> prompt type 'set type=mx' (without the quotes) and hit enter.
then type the...

Congratulations. I got my first Mac about a year ago and love it. It's got a great interface and is very stable. I usually have about 4 or 5 applications open at a time, sometimes more, and still...

What operating system are you using? Also what do you mean by "remove the work network"?

If it is a Windows XP computer and you are trying to authenticate to a domain then you should:

1. Log in...

That's not exactly true. Cisco owns Linksys yes, but it is not Cisco hardware. They are 2 completely different divisions and the hardware quality as well as the OS that runs on the devices are...

The best option is to get a cheap home router. It is a very bad idea to connect a machine directly to a cable modem since there is no hardware firewall between your computer and the internet...

There are a couple of things to remember. The max distance for Cat5 is 100 meters, but that isn't the length of the overall cable, it's for the wires inside which are twisted. This reduces the...

There are a couple of options. First some basics though. Each or your wired internet routers basically has 2 interfaces. 1 interface that connects to your outside connection and the other interface...